Status: IN
Bare metal clusters require platform-specific infrastructure at both provisioning (BMC automation, BareMetalHost CRs with root device hints, Ironic-backed Provisioning CR) and runtime networking (MetalLB with L2 gratuitous ARP failover or BGP with single-ASN constraint) — neither layer has a cloud-provider equivalent that works automatically.
depth-2 — bare metal demands explicit infrastructure at provisioning and networking layers that cloud platforms abstract away
Depends on (SL): bare-metal-provisioning-architecture, metallb-bare-metal-networking-model